Finding Freedom From Loneliness - by James S Gordon, MD

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Finding Freedom From Loneliness

With James S Gordon, MD

Loneliness is the signature disorder of our modern world. Its pain is as excruciating as any that comes from physical illness, and can be as lethal. It afflicts people of all ages and, most poignantly, young adults. The threat and uncertainty of COVID-19 and enforced separation from friends, family, familiar surroundings, and activities has made many of us feel more lonely. This 10-day course will give you the tools and techniques to balance the physical and emotional disturbance, the anxiety, and distress that loneliness causes and compounds. It will provide the support and confidence you need to live more freely and easily, and give you hope that you can move through shame, isolation, and insecurity to find self-confidence and connection. The program I present in this course is grounded in science, in my own experience of moving through and beyond times of overwhelming loneliness, and in my 50-year experience in successfully guiding lonely and traumatized people on the path of wholeness and healing.

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Meet your Teacher

James S Gordon, MD
Washington, DC, USA

Jim Gordon is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist, former National Institute of Mental Health researcher, and Chair of The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. The Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, he and his colleagues have created what is likely the world’s largest, most effective program for healing population-wide psychological trauma. His most recent book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma, presents a comprehensive, step-by-step approach for moving through and beyond the loneliness, anxiety, and depression that trauma leaves in its wake. Dr. Gordon and the method in The Transformation have been enthusiastically endorsed by Andrew Weil, MD, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Hillary Clinton, and many other leaders in health, wellness, and social justice.

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10 Days

2.9k students

4.6 stars

22 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Loneliness: The Disorder Of Our Time

An overview of the course, including a brief introduction to the universality of loneliness and its impact. You will receive instructions on beginning a personal program for healing loneliness, and how you can use a journal to help you do it.

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Lesson 2

Soft Belly Breathing: Coming Into Connection With Yourself

Discover the restorative effects of Soft Belly, a ‘concentrative meditation’ that quiets our fight-or-flight response, the anxiety we feel when lonely.

Lesson 3

Moving Through And Beyond Loneliness

Learn how to use movement, exercise, and ‘expressive meditation’ to dissipate feelings of loneliness and anxiety, self-consciousness and sadness.

Lesson 4

Mobilizing Our Imagination

Imagery is the language of the unconscious. This lesson will guide you through a series of imagery exercises designed to show you the power of your mind to affect your physical and psychological functioning—and to help overcome feelings of loneliness and inadequacy.

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Lesson 5

Consulting Your Wise Guide

In this lesson, we will practice an advanced imagery technique to connect you with the deep inner wisdom that lies within each of us. Your personal ‘Wise Guide’ will help you to navigate loneliness, handle difficult decisions, and better understand yourself.

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Lesson 6

Laughter and Gratitude

Use practical techniques to discover the restorative power of laughter and gratitude. You’ll see that laughter can dispel the self-doubt and self-pity that imprison us in loneliness. An experiment with gratitude will help you appreciate yourself and connect more easily with others.

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Lesson 7

Beyond Comfort Food

Join Dr. Gordon in creating a diet and a mindful way of eating that, together, enhance our long-term physical and psychological wellbeing and mitigate our vulnerability to anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

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Lesson 8

Only Connect

Connection is the antidote to loneliness. But to build stronger connections with others, we must first learn to connect more deeply with our inner selves and the world around us. This lesson will show us how.

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Lesson 9

Receiving and Giving: Finding Love, Meaning, And Purpose

Service to others is also service to oneself. When we give to and care for those around us, we are rewarded, too, as our feelings of stress and loneliness are diminished. Discover this possibility.

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Lesson 10

Living Without Loneliness: A Practical Plan

In this final lesson, we will develop a comprehensive plan for moving through and beyond loneliness. You will emerge from this final lesson and this course with a greater sense of ease and appreciation, with earned hope for rewarding and close connection.

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4.6 (66)

Recent Reviews

Anya

May 14, 2024

I really liked this course and the tools it gave for relieving loneliness. Shaking and dancing was my favorite, followed closely by soft belly breathing. Thank you for the wonderful lessons!

Helena

March 7, 2023

Julie

October 9, 2021

I just loved this course! I felt so comforted and happy doing these practices and I want to take all of his courses ❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much!

Jay

May 3, 2021

Wonderful, thank you for being there and sharing your wisdoms 🙏

Cindy

April 5, 2021

This was a fabulous course one that took me a while to get through but I would like to do it again and again. Thank you so very much for all your insights and my very favorite was the shaking and dancing and I will be doing that on a regular basis hopefully daily! Sending blessings of gratitude and abundance to U and URs🙏

Belinda

March 31, 2021

Really liked this course. Different ideas and things to try.

toni

March 16, 2021

This course is outstanding! Inspiring, helpful and useful information presented with love and compassion. Thank you 🌷

Toinan

March 2, 2021

Thank you for this course, Jim. I don’t know if I can do all of your suggestions every day but definitely some things are easy to put into practice anywhere and at any moment and I feel better, calmer and more connected, so I’ll try to incorporate as much as I can into my everyday life. Thank you again for making this course available. Greetings from the Netherlands, Antoine

Melissa

February 2, 2021

Thank you for this helpful, loving, course! 🙏

Sam

January 30, 2021

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Nancy

January 27, 2021

Thank you. You went to a lot of time and trouble for this course..I can tell. I was kind of hoping you would answer some of the questions..that would have been helpful. Thank you for this.

Elizabeth

January 22, 2021

Thank you James Gordon for a wonderfully rewarding and comforting journey ... I feel a different person from when we started ... I am more engaged again with life and people and happy! Many thanks again ...

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